Freedom
of Religion is in the Bill of Rights. Every woman's right to free
contraception is not. It's not even a penumbra. The pills we are
talking about are relatively cheap. Why can't Sandra Fluke buy her own
contraception? I think the real issue here is the Liberal/Progressive
Democrat Party's desire for absolute governmental power. This article
gives the real motive away by making a slippery slope argument that once
businesses can resist government orders on religious grounds, there's no end to
the other government orders that might be resisted. Sandra Fluke wants
everyone to be forced to do the government's bidding no matter how arbitrary
the rules are and no matter how often and capriciously they change. Just
to be totally clear, there is no desire on the part of the businesses involved
to outlaw contraception. They just don't want to have to pay for
it. If people think free contraception is a desirable outcome, they can
set up charities to fund it. Why does government coercion have come into
the picture? It's clear to me that private enterprise is a check on
government power, and that's why enforcing arbitrary regulations is so
important to Sandra Fluke and friends. They want an all-powerful
government.
I don't understand why the government has to force businesses
to pay for things. If government wants women to have free contraception, the
government should pay for it directly. If the government chooses not to pay for
contraception, then private charities can be organized to do this.
Contraceptives are available for purchase legally at every corner drugstore.
The folks who are forcing things down throats are the Big Government Democrats
trying to coerce others to pay for things because the Feds are too broke to buy
it themselves. Nobody is advocating making contraception illegal. The argument
is about who has to pay.
The left wants to claim more and more power for the central
government. They will lie, cheat and steal to achieve their goal. Contraception
is cheap and available at every corner drugstore. Why is the contraception mandate the only thing our Dear Leader won't change about Obamacare? The reason is the left wants
unquestioned obedience to government edicts. The level of outrage liberals are
expressing towards religion in particular and diverse beliefs in general, is a
measure of how badly they want to crush any resistance to any government
edict. I think they object to the resistance to government edicts much more
than to the specifics of this case. This is about removing any private
organizational checks on the exercise of governmental power. The specifics are
just a smokescreen.
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